Will 2012 be a repeat of 2011 for the stock market? There is a fair chance that it could be.
With the tremendous volatility and uncertainty in the stock market in 2011, the stock market ended flat for the year. Bloomberg Businessweek: “The Standard & Poor’s 500 index closed 2011 a fraction of a point below where it started the year.” Even so, in taking into account an annual inflation rate in the US of 3.4%, one might say that the markets technically ended in a loss for 2011.
As Reuters put it eloquently, “2011 was a long wild ride to nowhere” — a roller coaster of stagnation. Reuters suggests that we might revisit the same themes in 2012. As the US struggled with unemployment, natural disasters, political uncertainty, and debt issues, the globe had its own issues to contend with including problems in the Middle East and the Eurozone debt crisis. According to Reuters, “[s]imilar events probably await investors in 2012.” Thus, we may be in for another wild-ride roller coaster in 2012.
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